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SOUTH BEND PUBLIC LI 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY. "Copperheads" Rattling Now About "Dereliction/ / mnoSour On Ow n FRIDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1942 Roberts Probers Report On Isolationist Se YT TTrHY all this powwow? Were you so dumb that you had to be told; have an investiga- ELIEVE It ^A(_/ tion, and a report, to aware you of the indolence that subjected Pearl Harbor to its dis- *^ grace? Is there anything in the report of the Roberts committee, save a little detail, I that Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox didn't tell us upon his return from Hawaii ? Thereupon Or ELSE! Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel were at once relieved of their com- (On Page Three) MEAT O'THE COCONUT B$ Silos Withorspoon That initial A.E.F. IN IRELAND announcement that an A. E. ANDTEN ELSEWHERE F. had landed in Ireland set SETS LIPS WAGGING Irish-American and other WITH MAJOR BARBS British - haters hot talking; FOR GREAT BRITAIN why such aid to England and nowhere else \ But President Roosevelt bumped it; there are six, eight, possibly ten other expeditionary forces scat tered over the earth—though only the one in Ireland is given publicity. News Censor By ron Price divined, apparently, that location of the others might give aid and comfort to, the enemy. The troops to Ireland landed in Ulster; not Eire. Perhaps it was given out because President De Valera of Eire was already on the warpath; the landing was without his consent — though he had refused to give it when consulted, as to Eire. He evidently thinks, perhaps on advise of ex-Ambassador James Patrick Kennedy, that he should also run England, and her still remaining part of the island. Of course, the landing in Ulster was in aid of England, from some standpoint of military strategy; a bitter pill to Eire. Be sides it was a direct slap at Hitler, quite as distasteful to the anti-British as our occupa ^S^^^igf^j^ate^eggri. tion of Greenland and Iceland was to the America Firsts. We still have a lot of 6th columnists in this country, if not 5th, who decline to discern that this is any more than Be Present Doodlebugs and Dumb to Future a war with the Japs. ASHINGTON is anxious to have everybody stop thinking about the peace and think only But for the fact that it might prove bad in terms of war. Washington wants everybody to subordinate everything to a quest of for England, and the allies, it might have W victory; that is, everybody—except. That is all right and proper except—the exceptions. contributed better to retributive justice had We must think first of the victory, to be sure; subordinate everything to it—for the duration. Make we stayed out of Ireland, and let Germany it universal, including the peace-conspiring politicians, and have her. A few months under Nazi do nina- their plebeian or plutocratic lackeys, at work on a meanwhile tion, as France, Scandinavia, the Nether and hereafter that threatens both the performance and the lands, and Balkans have been, might teach peace, with a possible, if not a potential, defeat even in victory. Eire a worth while lesson. Nice that we got Week 4% Wat, In Washington—while counseling the populace to single- over there without any mishaps; hope that track mindedness, thinking only in terms of now, and blindly the other six, eight, and possibly ten expedi-' OVER WEEK-END trusting to the future,—they have set up a committee on eco- tions did as well. No need to speculate on RUISERS and destroyers oft Adm. nomic welfare and peace, to study mid-war situations, and where they went; perhaps we'll hear when Hart's Asiatic Fleet have sunk post_war retentions, dissolutions, and revised applications. they get to work. Possibly some are in, or C ftv.five JapanesJananese .transnorttransports in ththe . _ __ near the Philippines, which seems our great Strait of Makassar, the Navy Depart Of course, it is a New Deal committee, vested with New ment announced. Possibly another est concern just now. Maybe some are head Deal ideologies. Mr. Henry A. Wallace, vice president, is transport was sunk durjng the axtion. ed for East Russia with a weather eye on To The U. S. attacking forces suffered no chairman; also considerably imbedded in Supreme Director kyo; others to Africa, South America. We're losses. Donald M. Nelson's WPB (War Production Board), mainly, it producing some 2,500 planes a month; 1,- At the same time, Netherlands East is said, for observation purposes. 500 tanks—and they're probably headed for Indies bombers, working in conjunction For post-war purposes the chairman of the. committee on (On Page Two) (On Page Four) (On Page Three) Page Two THE MIRROR lou/ie labor ^lready lurned ELIEVE IT polation, by Presi // // LuiTIO LC-UUl down, as an inter- dent Philip Mur- RELSE V Peace Get. Nut Shell* DeLuxe Is for victory over the axis goons, Scant Favor |S£gi to the most of us it can't come too soon. sourced, John L. Lew'is' proposed (From Page One) v merger with A. F. of L. has taken on somewhere. But don't send anything Is for international law to be established once more, a "We'll wait and see" attitude in to help England. by lowering their craft to the old ocean floor. "Gott strafe England"; that slo i Washington. Most observers, how ever, feel that the proposal should gan of old Kaiser Wihelm, in the last Is for courage to be found in us all, have come a long time ago. The fact war, has indeed, become very A,mer- and with it we'll put Hitler's back to tfye wall. icanesque in this one. The reeei-t c that it came from the chief protagon America Firsts, etc., propagandized it Is for training of the world's free men, ist of the inter-union warfare ac to a frazzle; yes, a "frazzle." I have who will know no answer but triumph and win. counts for the wary reception, for it heard it a score of times since the T is cleat that everyone from high gov A.E.F. reached Ulster; "what is Eng-, Is for out with all we've got, ernment officials down to the taxi land doing?" Of course, nothing, in O our liberty is at stake and that's a lot. drivers on the streets welcome- the the estimate of the lambaster. Yet, idea in principle. she has been holding the fort two Is to roundup and trap in our nets, Businessmen are pointing out the years, quite alone, except for the en R all fifth-columrtists and similar insects. irony of the situation. Faced with tertainment of the Nazis the past few answering charges of conducting Is for yonder which is many miles away, months by the Russians. Besides "business as usual in 1941," thfcf but onee we reach him he'll pay, pay and pay. protetting her oWn island, without Y have pointed out that a good deal of the privilege of a nearby air base in valuable time was lost in jurisdic —Arthur ShuitS; Ireland, England has been blasting tional strikes between the C.I.O. and Germany on the mainland, upsetting the A. F. of L. in which business was her applecarts; in the Netherlands and the unwilling victim. Scandinavia, tormenting her in the better job running this war, than f J What to do about A nation-wide poll of-public opin Balkans, driving her all over Africa, Churchill or Roosevelt, or any or all "Wee Pests' small business al- ion indicates that a single national and now, from press reports, doing of their war ministers, admirals or labor organization would be wel about as well as we are in the Philip generals. We know all about what MayNowBerrr^V/ug come to an overwhelming majority is going on. Of course, they don't, pines, in aid of the far east,—with around any man's of the leaders and the rank and file of or even if they do, they must be out criticising ourselves. Coordinate. town. There's sure both unions. crooked — because they are not us. "Keep 'em roll After six weeks it isn't; strange for to be someone present who is con * * * * That is why we can't see why they ing" is the slogan us, to begin asking, not always, nected with the fifteen-odd govern Soldier Boys do this, or do that, and incline to for the soldier "what is England doing?" but what ment ag.ttgks which have something question it. It has been depressing more or less to do with small busi Learn How to schools that are we doing -— aside from a landing the past six weeks, Remembering in Ulster? The president says hitting ness. Floyd B. Odium, small busi Pearl Harbor, that we didn't within IV.8K8 KSPSirS industries main at six, eight or ten other spots. It ness' champion, pulls no punches a day or so wipe Tokyo from the tain to teach Uncle Sam's new army would be nice if Censor Price could when he sums up the situation by map, and that the Japs even got a how to handle and repair the compli find a way to let us in on some more saying: "I think everybody's job is smell of the Philippines. In our cated equipment of. modern" warfare." of it, *— if it can be done without nobody's job." boastfulness,.